T here is a very interesting passage in Psalm 12:6 which states, “The words of the Lord are pure words, as silver tried in a furnace of earth, puri fied seven times.” In my years of public life as a physician, manufacturer (tent maker), and preacher, I have found so many people who deny that the Bible is the Word of God. Looking up this statement of “puri fied seven times,” I discovered that there are also seven kinds of people who have tried to undermine the truth and who have denied the Word of God. They fall in the following categories: the mathematician, the archaeologist, the cleric, the astronomer, the scien tist, the physicist, and the historian. As an example, the mathematician may find fault in some of the figures the Bible gives. One day I was riding along in a car with the principal of a high school. He said, “Dr. Wilson, the men that wrote the Bible evidently didn’t know much about mathematics because it says that when Solomon made his lavor, it was ten cubits across and a line of thirty cubits did compass it.” I turned to the passage in my Bible and noticed that he had over looked something that the verse said. He was right that it did say it was ten cubits across (that is 180 inches), but he hadn’t noticed there was a crown which was a hand breadth wide. This went around the top of it. Now a hand breadth is four inches. So I took a pen cil and paper and wrote down 180 inches, substracted 8 inches from it, leaving 172 inches. I then divided that by pi (3.1416), and it came out thirty. This is exactly what the Bible said. “But,” he said, “there is something
else about that which I m sure you can’t explain so easily. In one place the Bible says the lavor held 3,000 baths; in another place it says it held 2,00(1 baths. Now which is right?” Again I took my Bible and turned to the two passages. In the first one it said that it did hold 3,000 baths. But in the second passage, it said the lavor »contained 2,000 baths. You see, the first was the capacity, the second was the contents. The Bible is absolutely accurate. The mathematician will find it so if he reads what it says, carefully. Then there’s the archaeologist. He is satisfied the Bible isn’t true because he can’t find the things which are spoken about. Many years before Baby lon was destroyed, the prophet said that Babylon would become heaps and be covered with waves and with dust. What does all of that mean? The Eu phrates River was dammed by an earthquake and the water banked up in the rainy season, flooding and cov ering Babylon with waves. After a while, an opening was made, and the water gradually seeped out leaving Babylon covered with dust, exactly as the Bible prophesied would happen 528 years before the event took place. The Scriptures also prophesied that Baby lon would become heaps. When the archaeologists dug down about 30 feet and found the ancient city, a remark able thing wq£ discovered. Babylon con sisted of mounds with little paths be tween t h e m . T h e archaeologists thought these heaps contained some real treasure. But when they dug into them, they found that they merely contained debris. There was no lime stone anywhere around the city. The 26
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